Word: genderism
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...same as they ever were. They're not, of course--or rather, they're the same but younger. Marketers have coined the concept KGOY, or "Kids get older younger": a 6-year-old follows pop sensations her mother might have at age 10 or 12, and kids differentiate by gender earlier. Disney, says Gary Stibel, president and CEO of the New England Consulting Group, has been "brilliant" in focusing on young girls. "Historically, the marketing rules have said that up until a certain age girls and boys are the same," Stibel says. "That was true 50 years...
...Players compete in divisions based on age and gender. Giordano Benassi, who leads the eight-person Italian delegation, says that in this "game of strength" female participants must be protected. "For a small woman going against a big man, there would be a problem psychologically," he says...
...Bruises and gender wars aren't the only dangers for school officials in England: Conkers represents a safety hazard and raises the threat of lawsuits. Last year, after a student fell from a tree while searching for the perfect conker, his school district chopped down a row of horse chestnut trees. Since then dozens of other schools have started requiring students to wear safety goggles or banned the game altogether...
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Susan Faludi has never been afraid of controversial topics. Her two previous books, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, (which won the National Book Critics Circle Award), and Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man, took on touchy issues of gender politics and feminism. Likewise, her provocative new book, The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America (Metropolitan), concerns sensitive cultural territory, the nation's myths about 9/11. Does Faludi worry about treading on sacred ground? "I'm used to being beaten up," she says wryly. "You try as best...
...towards verbal skills and communication.And the research is carrying over into the classroom. Single-sex classrooms, once proposed with the aim of improving females’ scores in math, have now been lauded as also improving boys’ engagement with books by allowing teachers to modify content for gender. All sorts of suggestions have been put forth for why girls read more than boys, from the content of the books taught in school to males’ stronger engagement with other media, particularly video and computer games. It’s a fine line to walk between examining quantifiable...